The first table below looks at the demand for the DBA role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DBA in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Administrator
Rank 73 131 80
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 74 20 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 3.013% 0.774% 2.809%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.208% 0.804% 3.003%
Number of salaries quoted 66 18 68
Average salary £50,000 £42,250 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.34% +1.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £35,625 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £70,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2307 2488 3097
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.93% 96.28% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1880 2021 2521
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
DBA
East of England

DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing DBA across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DBA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DBA across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire DBA Salary Trend

DBA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DBA across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hertfordshire DBA Salary Histogram

DBA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Welwyn Garden City +13 38 £50,000 +69.49%
Potters Bar - 6 £45,000 -
Rickmansworth - 4 £36,500 -
Watford +12 3 £42,000 +14.28%
Royston - 2 £32,750 -
Stevenage - 2 - -
Hemel Hempstead +4 1 £50,000 +11.11%
DBA
East of England

DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title.

1 132 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 118 (70.24%) SQL
3 99 (58.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 99 (58.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 65 (38.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 64 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
6 58 (34.52%) SQL Server 2008
7 57 (33.93%) Finance
8 55 (32.74%) Replication
9 54 (32.14%) Migration
10 51 (30.36%) BizTalk Server
11 49 (29.17%) Windows
12 44 (26.19%) T-SQL
13 39 (23.21%) Oracle
14 34 (20.24%) DTS
15 32 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
16 31 (18.45%) Windows Server 2008
17 29 (17.26%) Business Intelligence
18 27 (16.07%) Retail
18 27 (16.07%) UNIX
19 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
20 24 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
20 24 (14.29%) SC Cleared
20 24 (14.29%) Security Cleared
21 23 (13.69%) SQL Server 2005
22 22 (13.10%) Degree
23 20 (11.90%) Oracle 10g
23 20 (11.90%) SQL Server 2012
24 19 (11.31%) ITIL
25 18 (10.71%) SQL Server 2000

DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited DBA in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (5.357%) .NET
2 8 (4.762%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.571%) Web Services
3 6 (3.571%) XML
3 6 (3.571%) ASP
4 1 (0.595%) WinForms
4 1 (0.595%) WPF
4 1 (0.595%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 51 (30.36%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (2.976%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.595%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 17 (10.12%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.571%) MS Office
3 5 (2.976%) FastStats
Business Applications
1 13 (7.738%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.595%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.595%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.143%) Internet
2 10 (5.952%) SAN
3 5 (2.976%) Intranet
4 1 (0.595%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 99 (58.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 99 (58.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 65 (38.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 58 (34.52%) SQL Server 2008
5 34 (20.24%) DTS
6 32 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (13.69%) SQL Server 2005
8 20 (11.90%) Oracle 10g
8 20 (11.90%) SQL Server 2012
9 18 (10.71%) SQL Server 2000
10 17 (10.12%) Oracle 11g
11 13 (7.738%) Oracle Discoverer
11 13 (7.738%) Essbase
12 11 (6.548%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 10 (5.952%) DB2
13 10 (5.952%) RDBMS
14 7 (4.167%) OLAP
14 7 (4.167%) OLTP
15 6 (3.571%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (1.190%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.595%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (33.93%) Finance
2 27 (16.07%) Retail
3 13 (7.738%) Telecoms
4 12 (7.143%) Retail Banking
4 12 (7.143%) Banking
5 5 (2.976%) Marketing
6 3 (1.786%) Advertising
7 1 (0.595%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 55 (32.74%) Replication
2 15 (8.929%) Data Extraction
3 12 (7.143%) Clustering
4 8 (4.762%) Statistics
5 6 (3.571%) Visualisation
6 4 (2.381%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.786%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.786%) Mathematics
7 3 (1.786%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.595%) Blog
8 1 (0.595%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 49 (29.17%) Windows
2 31 (18.45%) Windows Server 2008
3 27 (16.07%) UNIX
4 24 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (7.738%) Linux
6 6 (3.571%) Windows CE
7 4 (2.381%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
2 54 (32.14%) Migration
3 29 (17.26%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (11.31%) ITIL
5 14 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
6 13 (7.738%) E-Commerce
6 13 (7.738%) Incident Management
7 12 (7.143%) CRM
8 10 (5.952%) Data Security
8 10 (5.952%) ETL
9 7 (4.167%) Data Migration
9 7 (4.167%) Systems Analysis
10 6 (3.571%) OOP
10 6 (3.571%) OO
10 6 (3.571%) Service Delivery
10 6 (3.571%) Data Management
11 5 (2.976%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (2.976%) Database Marketing
11 5 (2.976%) Data Analysis
11 5 (2.976%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 118 (70.24%) SQL
2 44 (26.19%) T-SQL
3 14 (8.333%) PL/SQL
4 13 (7.738%) Shell Script
5 12 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.143%) Perl
6 8 (4.762%) VB
6 8 (4.762%) C
6 8 (4.762%) C#
7 7 (4.167%) VB.NET
8 6 (3.571%) Delphi
8 6 (3.571%) Java
8 6 (3.571%) VB6
9 2 (1.190%) VBA
10 1 (0.595%) AWK
10 1 (0.595%) sed
10 1 (0.595%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 24 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.10%) Degree
3 1 (0.595%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.143%) Solvency II
2 3 (1.786%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.190%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.595%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (10.12%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (4.762%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.595%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.595%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (7.738%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.595%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 39 (23.21%) Oracle
2 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.524%) Hyperion
4 13 (7.738%) Fujitsu
5 9 (5.357%) IBM
6 5 (2.976%) Progress
7 3 (1.786%) Sybase
8 2 (1.190%) VMware
9 1 (0.595%) HP
9 1 (0.595%) Red Gate
9 1 (0.595%) DevExpress
Watford, South East
As the Senior SQL Server DBA you will have strong experience of SQL Server Database administration, SQL Server patch management and expert levels of SQL Server RDBMS installation/...
Hudson
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced SQL Server DBA to join this global organisation in this varied role which will include managing current systems, roadmapping, design,...
GSA Techsource
Salary: GBP0 to GBP45000 per annum + Benefits: + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
St. Albans, Hertfordshire
T-SQL development (stored procedures/functions/triggers) - SSIS - SQL Server Integration Services package development. - SSRS - SQL Server Reporting Services administration and report development... - Ideally experience of SharePoint 2007/...
AECOM
Salary: Competitive Salary plus benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Job Requirements Essential Criteria: Have, or be eligible for, security clearance to SC level. Understanding of the principals and practicalities of data protection. Demonstrable experience of Oracle and...
Atos
Salary: £1 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Key skills: Oracle DBA, Oracle Database Administrator, Oracle 10g/11g, PostgreSQL 8.3/9.1, SQL Server 2008/12, Unix Shell, RAC, Dataguard, Greenplum, Unix scripting Apply now...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + be - shares, health, pension
Posted: 19 May 2013
Watford, London
Technically you must have excellent SQL Server (2005, 2008, R2) skills, strong knowledge of Virtual environments with VMware, Hyper-V etc, strong Sql and PL/Sql and good...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: To Max £43k + excellent bonus & bens package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Main Responsibilities:*Installation, configuration and upgrading of Database server software and related products.*Database tuning and performance monitoring.*Application tuning and performance monitoring including creating monitoring and early-...
Hudson
Salary: £40000 - £47500 per annum + Excellent Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Oracle tuning and performance management. Oracle Enterprise Manager configuration and maintenance... Working knowledge of Oracle Dataguard. Working knowledge of Oracle RAC... Experience of supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008/...
Ocado
Salary: £Competitive
Posted: 21 May 2013